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Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789), A Dutch girl at breakfast, ca. 1756-57 (detail). Oil on canvas, 46.8 x 39 cm.
AMSTERDAM.- The British government today granted an export license for the painting 'A Dutch girl at breakfast' by Jean-Etienne Liotard which the Rijksmuseum has recently purchased from a private collection in which it had remained for more than 240 years. A Dutch girl at breakfast is an intimate ode to Dutch Golden Age painting. The peripatetic Genevan pastellist Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) created the work in the style of Dutch seventeenth-century masters during a long sojourn in Holland around 1756. As one of his few oil-paintings, his Dutch girl at breakfast is an important addition to the famous group of pastels by Liotard that have been in the Rijksmuseum since 1885. This stunning new acquisition will be shown in the Rijksmuseums Gallery of Honour from mid-January. Taco Dibbits, General Director of the Rijksmuseum: 'A Dutch girl at breakfast' radiates the same atmosphere of peace and simplicity as Vermeers Milkmaid ... More |
The Best Photos of the Day Sun rises behind the "Ringheiligtum Poemmelte" ancient ring ditch in Poemmelte-Zackmuende, south of Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on December 21, 2016, which is the shortest day of the year. The ring-shaped system, that was discovered in 1991 and reconstructed afterwards, probably served as a ritual site and originally was constructed about 4,300 years ago. Peter Gercke / dpa / AFP
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston displays newly conserved altarpiece by Benjamin West | | 30+ carat "Juliet Pink" and rare "Argyle Violet" diamonds make U.S. debut | | Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg opens exhibition of works from its collection |
MFA staff installs the painting in the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro gallery.
BOSTON, MASS.- The recently acquired Devout Men Taking the Body of Saint Stephen (1776) by Benjamin West is one of the largest paintings in the MFAs collectiontogether with its towering frame, it measures more than 18 1/2 feet tall. Over the past two years, the monumental altarpiece was treated in the Conservation in Action studio, where Museum visitors were able to witness the gradual process of cleaning and restoring the work. The painting and its original gilded wood frame, which was also conserved, are now reunited as the dramatic centerpiece of a new installation that explores how 18th-century artworks and artists traveled across both intellectual and geographical borders. West was the first American-born painter to study abroad, second president of the Royal Academy of Arts, and painter to the English king. Devout Men Taking the Body of Saint Stephen, among ... More | |
The Juliet Pink is a 30+ carat Fancy Intense Pink diamond. Its intense color grade, lack of inclusions, and size make it exceptionally rare.
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County opened its exhibition Diamonds: Rare Brilliance, which brings together rare colored gems never before seen in the United States inside the Museums renowned Gem and Mineral Hall. At the center of Rare Brilliance is the Juliet Pink Diamond, which is an extremely rare pink diamond of over 30 carats, and a Fancy Deep Grayish Bluish Violet named the Argyle Violet Diamond after the Argyle mine in Western Australia, where it was discovered in 2015. Through stunning examples, such as the fluorescent lighting of a rainbow diamond necklace and a very rare Victorian Orchid Diamond, the exhibition brings to light the rare properties of colored gemstones, the science behind natural colored diamonds, and how the interplay of light and chemistry gives ... More | |
Exhibition view. Photo: Michaela Hille/MKG.
HAMBURG.- ReVision. Photography at the MKG is the first exhibition to offer an overview of the exceptional holdings of the Photography and New Media Collection at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, which spans the period from the early days of photography to the present and currently comprises around 75,000 exhibits. As far back as the late nineteenth century, the MKG was the first museum in Germany to open its doors to the medium of photography. In doing so, it helped break new ground: it purchased photographs as a medium in their own right, established photography as a focus of the collection, and began presenting it in exhibitions in 1911. Since those days, the MKG has been the only museum in Germany to add continually to its photo collection. ReVision is the result of a review of the holdings and a readjustment of perspective. In the exhibition, the MKG takes another look and in some cases ... More |
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| The Heckscher Museum of Art exhibits American illustrations from the Mort Künstler Collection | | Second expansion to Lillehammer Art Museum and Lillehammer Cinema | | Original paintings from Pink Floyd's The Wall on view at San Francisco Art Exchange |
World of Charles Dickens by Noman Rockwell from the collection of Mort and Deborah Künstler.
HUNTINGTON, NY.- Norman Rockwell, the quintessential American illustrator, anchors an impressive new exhibit of iconic artwork from the collection of Mort Künstler, a gifted artist and a discerning collector of important American illustration. The Heckscher Museum of Arts Norman Rockwell and Friends: American Illustrations from the Mort Künstler Collection opened Saturday, December 10. Mort Künstler is a renowned painter of scenes from American history. His pictures have been exhibited in museums throughout the country, and his paintings are the subject of books and a documentary film. Mr. Künstler is also an astute collector. Encompassing 75 paintings and sketches acquired over decades, Norman Rockwell and Friends: American Illustrations from the Mort Künstler Collection, is the first time this important private collection is on public view. Norman Rockwell, J.C. ... More | |
Weidemannsalen with steel façade by artist Bård Breivik hovering over the childrens workshop. Photo: Mark Syke.
LILLEHAMMER.- The Lillehammer Art Museum and Lillehammer Cinema were first established in an Erling Viksjø-designed building in 1964, which is considered today a definite representation of the architectural style of its time. In 1994, Snøhetta completed an extension to the Museum with the construction of an independent building that sought to bridge the architectural language of the original 1960s buildings and contemporary formal expression. Now, in 2016, a second Snøhetta-designed expansion connects the two existing institutions with the addition of the new exhibition hall Weidemannsalen to the Museum, and two theaters and an interior renovation to the Lillehammer Cinema. The expansion of the Museum is created on idea of art hovering above a transparent base. The new space houses a childrens workshop at ... More | |
The Scream, 30 1/2" x 38 1/2" sheet size.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- San Francisco Art Exchange LLC has been selected to exclusively represent the most valuable collection of Rock and Roll artwork to ever be offered for sale. Epic in scale and steeped in Rock history, these original works of art are marquis collectibles for major individual, corporate and institutional collectors. Due to the extensive distribution of the imagery via album, live-performances, music-videos, and the film (along with the accompanying publicity), the artwork offered is among the most instantly recognizable and significant in pop culture. The Wall album topped Billboard charts for 15 weeks, and in 1999 was certified 23x Platinum. It remains one of the best-selling albums of all time, selling over 19 million copies between 1979 and 1990 in the US alone. The film was critically acclaimed when it was released in 1982 and won BAFTAs for Best Original Song and Best Sound. Scarfe developed ... More |
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| Comprehensive retrospective include many of the Vik Muniz's most recent works | | Spink announces sale of Islamic and Foreign Coins | | National Portrait Gallery commissions new photograph of Star Wars actress Felicity Jones |
Installation view.
BLOOMINGTON, IN.- The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University serves as the only Midwest venue for a major mid-career retrospective of the celebrated contemporary photographer Vik Muniz in fall 2016. Co-organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Vik Muniz covers more than twenty-five years of the imaginative artists career and features over 80 photographs, including many of Munizs most recent works. The exhibition will travel internationally following its presentation at the Eskenazi Museum of Art from October 1, 2016 through February 5, 2017. Along with the exhibition, the Eskenazi Museum is purchasingwith generous support from David and Martha Moore and Judi and Milt Stewartthe powerful diptych George Stinney Jr., from Muniz's Album series. This addition to the museum's permanent collection will make sure Muniz's rich artwork lives on in Bl ... More | |
An Egyptian Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos, restored (55-51 BC). AR Tetradrachm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Spink announced the sale of Islamic and Foreign Coins: The Susquehanna Collection and the Dr Allam Collection which Spink will be holding on the 15th January at the Waldorf Astoria during the International Numismatic Convention in New York. A sale packed with choice rarities from a particularly exotic corner of the globe. This sale boasts some truly magnificent gems, for example: lot 74, a Lebanese Olympic Committee Gold Medal Originally for Presentation to Gabriel Gemayel, ca. 1972. It forms an elegant 18k gold link bracelet with the medals hanging apendant. Gemayel's name has been deliberately effaced with a line of circle punches on the Olympic Committee Gold Medal. The bracelet also bears a 27th Olympiad, Rome 1960 Commemorative Gold Medal showing an athlete holding up torch with a wolf suckling Romulus and Remus ... More | |
Felicity Jones by Laura Pannack, 2016. © National Portrait Gallery, London.
LONDON.- A striking newly- commissioned photograph of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story actress Felicity Jones has been commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, it was announced today Wednesday 21 December 2016. The portrait, taken by photographer Laura Pannack, was commissioned through the John Kobal New Work Award, a prize awarded annually to a photographer under thirty-five whose work is selected for display in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. The London-based photographer Laura Pannack won the John Kobal New Work Award commission following her selection as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2014 exhibition, and was invited to photograph the actress Felicity Jones in February 2016. Felicity Jones decided on a casual and relaxed style for her photograph taken on ... More |
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| In memoriam: Antique toy expert Richard Bertoia, 62, of Bertoia Auctions | | Collection de l'Art Brut marks its fortieth anniversary with exhibition of works by Eugen Gabritschevsky | | First major retrospective of the work of the New York artist Rochelle Feinstein opens in Hanover |
Rich Bertoia will be dearly missed by his family and friends, especially those from the antique toy collecting community.
VINELAND, NJ.- Richard Rich Bertoia, an expert in the field of antique toys and an associate with family-owned Bertoia Auctions, died peacefully on Dec. 19 at his home in Vineland, New Jersey. He had waged a courageous battle against cancer over the past year and was 62 years old. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1954, Rich moved with his family to Millville, New Jersey when he was three years old. He attended Millville schools and graduated from Cumberland County College and Rowan University. As a boy, he developed an interest in early glass and other antiques. At age 12, he began collecting antique bottles that he and his older brother, Bill, dug up from the soil of southern New Jersey. He was soon buying and selling at local bottle shows. After college, Rich began his career as a teacher. He later moved into sales. In 1994, he joined the Bertoia familys auction business as a cataloger and auction ... More | |
Detail of Untitled, between 1947 and 1953. Gouache on paper, 20 x 29 cm. Photo: AN Collection de lArt Brut, Lausanne.
LAUSANNE.- Marking its fortieth anniversary, the Collection de lArt Brut is showing the little known oeuvre of Eugen Gabritschevsky (1893-1979). This Russian creator's works first met the public eye thanks to their integration by Jean Dubuffet into his personal Art Brut collection, as of 1950. The Eugen Gabritschevsky show is being set up jointly with the La maison rouge (Paris, July 8 - Sept. 18, 2016) and the American Folk Art Museum (New York, March 13 - Aug. 13, 2017). It comprises 75 works from the Collection de l'Art Brut holdings, together with a good number of works on loan from abroad, i.e. from both the creator's family and the Galerie Chave in Vence (Fr). Featuring 145 of Gabritschevsky's pieces, the show also includes photographs, texts by his pen and archival documents. The son of a renowned bacteriologist, this creator was born in Moscow. After studies in biology and then specialization in genetics, ... More | |
Rochelle Feinstein, Love Your Work, 1999. Ãl auf Leinwand, 60,9 x 45,7 x 3,17 cm. Courtesy Stellar Rays und die Künstlerin.
HANOVER.- Make It Behave is the first major retrospective of the work of the New York artist Rochelle Feinstein (*1947). The exhibition was developed in cooperation with the Centre dArt Contemporain Genève and the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich and will be presented in 2018 at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York. It brings together paintings and series of works from the past three decades. As the title of a work and the exhibition, Make It Behave illustrates the crucial role of language and its normative use in Feinsteins painting. The work Make It Behave (1990) consists of the gesture of a single stroke of the paintbrush that forms a red square. Who is being told to behave here? What should a proper square look like? With The Estate of Rochelle F. the artist created her own posthumous estate between 2009 and 2010. Inspired by the financial crisis in 2009, Feinstein decided to work ... More |
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Decades after USSR fell, Stalinist crimes still divide Russia
MOSCOW (AFP).- Andrei Kolesnikov laid out the letters his grandfather sent home from the Stalinist labour camp where he eventually died after eight years as a political prisoner. "It was an everyday case, so common for that period," political analyst Kolesnikov told AFP in his Moscow flat. "My grandfather David Traub was caught up under the wheel of history." It has been eight decades since the start of the Great Terror that saw countless innocent victims across the Soviet Union executed or sent to the Gulag camps -- and 25 years since the USSR itself finally ceased to exist. But a fight over the historical truth -- and memory -- of the crimes of the Soviet regime still drags on in Russia as the current authorities under President Vladimir Putin stand accused of trying to minimise the dark chapters of the past in a bid to bolster their own grip on power. Earlier this month ... More
Hirshhorn announces new partnership with Art in Embassies
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has announced a new, long-term partnership with the U.S. Department of States Office of Art in Embassies, a global program that fosters public diplomacy through the visual arts. The collaboration will allow for both institutions to develop international exhibitions, extended loans, artist residencies and programming. It will kick off Jan. 11, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. in the Hirshhorns Ring Auditorium with a public discussion and reception featuring renowned contemporary artists Nick Cave (b. 1959, United States), Imran Qureshi (b. 1972, Pakistan) and Pat Steir (b. 1940, United States). Throughout the past 50 years, Art in Embassies has played a critical role in encouraging international cultural exchange, creating lasting connections through a shared passion in the visual arts, said Hirshhorn ... More
Works by Hebert, Picasso, Hollyer, Willis, Van Vreeland all in Bruneau & Co.'s multi-estate auction
CRANSTON, RI.- A Neoclassical bronze figure of the Greek goddess Thetis on a large mantle clock by French sculptor Pierre Eugene Emile Hebert (1828-1893), a Madoura pottery partial glaze ceramic bowl by Pablo Picasso and an oil on board hunting scene by Gregory Hollyer (Br./Am., 1871-1965) will all be sold on Saturday, January 14th, by Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers. Theyre just a few of the expected top lots in Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers three-session Winter Antiques Fine Art Auction, featuring a wide variety of decorative and fine arts, Asian art and objects, militaria and erotic art, gathered from prominent estates and collections throughout New England. In all, almost 400 lots will come under the gavel over the course of the day-long event. The auction will be conducted in the firms gallery, located at 63 Fourth Avenue in Cranston. Were excited to start off the New ... More
Christie's announces Americana Week 2017
NEW YORK, NY.- Christies announces Americana Week 2017, a series of auctions, viewings and events, will be held from January 13-20. The week of sales is comprised of Chinese Export Art on January 18, Palmetto Hall: The Jay P. Altmayer Family Collection on January 19, Courageous Spirits: Outsider and Vernacular Art and Important American Furniture, Folk Art, and Silver on January 20. Highlights include 31 Chinese snuff boxes (estimates ranging from $1,500 to $10,000), a George A. Schastey Aesthetic Movement grand piano (estimate: $300,000-500,000), a rare pair of Queen Anne maple chairs, possibly by William Savery, a group of furniture from the pioneering collector Mrs. J. Insley Blair, a pair of extremely rare silver candlesticks by Simeon Soumaine (estimate: $100,000-200,000) a pair of silver braziers by John Burt (estimate: $100,000-200,000), ... More
Vibrant 2nd edition confirms INK ASIA as the leading platform for contemporary ink art
HONG KONG.- The second edition of INK ASIA was staged successfully from 16 to 18 December in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, with a Private Preview and Vernissage on 15 December. The only international fair dedicated to modern and contemporary ink, INK ASIA 2016 hosted 50 leading international galleries and academic institutions from Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan and beyond. The private preview was very popular and the fair attracted over 10,000 visitors during the four days. INK ASIA 2016 presented a range of high-quality ink works through gallery exhibitions, as well as panel discussions and academic exchange, resulting in the fair being viewed as the leading platform for contemporary ink art. Founder and Director of INK ASIA, Calvin Hui said, I hope INK ASIA can become the most significant platform for art exchange and art ... More
David Gordon retrospective installation opens at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
NEW YORK, NY.- Since committing to donate his archives to The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, writer, director, and choreographer David Gordon has been actively participating in and reflecting on the process of compiling one's own archive, a project he has named Archiveography. As part of this investigation, Gordon unveils a new installation in The Library for the Performing Arts' Vincent Astor Gallery entitled DAVID GORDON: ARCHIVEOGRAPHY - Under Construction. The free installation, a collaboration between the Library and the Pick Up Performance Co(s), will remain on display through April 6, 2017. Under Construction is a non-linear, non-chronological installation that embodies Gordon's work. The installation features four collage-covered wall created by Gordon specifically for the installation that showcases images from his history ... More
Peabody Essex Museum bares its sole with U.S. debut of 'Shoes: Pleasure and Pain'
SALEM, MASS.- The Peabody Essex Museum is presenting Shoes: Pleasure and Pain, an exhibition organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London that explores the creative potential, cultural significance and transformative power of footwear through more than 300 pairs, ranging from elaborate vintage designs to cutting-edge contemporary works by Manolo Blahnik, Christian Louboutin, Jimmy Choo and Prada. Examples from famed shoe collectors are shown alongside a dazzling range of works from PEMs shoe collection, the largest of its kind in the country, many of which have never been displayed before. Shoes: Pleasure and Pain offers a global perspective on footwear fashion and tracks the latest developments in technology that open the possibility of ever higher heels and more dramatic shapes. The exhibition runs through March 12, 2017. Our feet ... More
2017 jewellery trends and predictions from Bonhams
LONDON.- In 2016, Bonhams sold more gemstones and pieces of jewellery than any other auction house in the UK. When it comes to jewellery and auctions, It is the unequivocal UK market leader and has been for six out of the last eight years. Here, Jean Ghika, Director of Jewellery for the UK and Europe, gives her predictions for what she anticipates will capture peoples interest in 2017 along with an update on jewellery buying habits: In 2016, jewellery buyers put serious money into the very best coloured gems. Emeralds, rubies and sapphires all soared at Bonhams Fine Jewellery auctions in London and also in New York and Hong Kong. In 2016 in particular, the finest unheated exceptional blue sapphires from Kashmir made big prices on the auction block. The sheer rarity and exceptional quality of these stones from the now largely extinct mines located high in the ... More
Palacio de Velázquez exhibits works by Txomin Badiola
MADRID.- The artist Txomin Badiola (Bilbao, 1957) is the subject of a wide-ranging retrospective at the Palacio de Velázquez. It includes a selection of his production of photographic works, drawings, sculptures and multimedia installations from the 1980s to the present day. The show is the result of a dialogue between Badiola and both João Fernandes and various artists in his milieu, since, to use his own words, the process of conception of an exhibition of my work cannot be a simple development of conceptual order leading to a form; it must rather be the process itself that is constituted as a form per se, a form that leads to another. Badiola has therefore invited seven artists who are close to him Ana Laura Aláez, Ãngel Bados, Jon Mikel Euba, Pello Irazu, Asier Mendizabal, Itziar Okariz and Sergio Prego to select ten of his works each and make recordings of the meetings ... More
Exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art focuses on a key figure in Australian art
MELBOURNE.- Making History: Charles Blackman focuses on a key figure in both Australian art and Heide history, an artist renowned for his inventive lyricism. On display in Heide I, the original farmhouse home of John and Sunday Reed, this is the second exhibition in a new series that draws from the museum's collection and archives, and highlights the influential role of the Reeds in the development of modern art and culture over the course of five decades from the 1930s. As a young painter Charles Blackman gained the support of John and Sunday Reed in the early 1950s and they were among the first collectors of his work. He and Sunday shared a passion for poetry and French literature which informed much of his imagery, and life at Heide provided some of the source material for his remarkable Alice in Wonderland series. The paintings, works on paper and sculpture ... More
Susan Amorde checks our emotional baggage after November election
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Shoebox Projects announces its second artist-in-resident; sculptor and installation artist Susan Amorde. Susan is set to take over this experimental art space in the Brewery Arts Complex. Best known for her skillful interpretations of the emotional baggage each of us carry, Susan uses vintage suitcases and other luggage to create sculptures that invite the viewer to consider the existential weight of our worries and sorrows. During the Shoebox Projects residency, Susan plans to experiment with new ways of working within the context of her metaphor. Explorations stretching further into surrealism with added real animal teeth, antlers and some other more figurative objects mixed with the metaphorical suitcases are definitely on the table, Susan says. Transforming an entire space during the month will be challenging. I am looking forward to seeing what ... More
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Flashback On a day like today, American painter and graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, was born December 22, 1960. Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 ? August 12, 1988) was an American artist. He began as an obscure graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s and evolved into an acclaimed Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter by the 1980s. In this image: A gallery assistant poses with US artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's "Warrior" at Sotheby's auction house in central London on June 14, 2012. AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL.
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